Experiencing Interruptions?

Expanded Coexistence

This film is a media art with an endless loop for media facade. Starting with the constellation image, it shows the ‘God of Wheel’ tomb murals in Goguryeo and the floating hearts rotating in the vast space. It also shows the god of the sun and the moon goddess carved in Goguryeo murals, and seven Yggdrasills. This work expresses the development of human civilization and culture toward ultimate utopia with the best conditions that humans can think of through the "Wheel of History." The moving 'God of Wheel' in the work symbolizes this, and the heart of outer space means the 'coexistence of altruism', the basis of an ideal society.

  • Seung-il Chon
    Director
  • Seung-il Chon
    Writer
  • Seung-il Chon
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 36 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    7,800 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    South Korea
  • Country of Filming:
    South Korea
  • Language:
    Korean
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Seung-il Chon

Chon Seung-il graduated from College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University. He is an animation and automata director at Automata Factory. Chon Seung-il created the independent animations <Tomorrow Human>(1994), <Pencil Story>(1995), <Circulation>(1996), <We Love You>(1997), <MIMESIS TV>(2000), <Cosmic Tree>(2003), <Cold Blood>(2004), <Memory of May>(2007), <My War>(2013). His animation has been shown at world-renowned film festivals including the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Tehran International Short Film Festival, Rome Independent Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, International Short Film Festival Berlin, International Festival of Animated Films AniFest Trebon, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Busan International Film Festival, JEONJU International Film Festival, Seoul Independent Film Festival, Roma Short Film Festival, Kiez Berlin Film Festiva, Prague International Film Festival, Rotterdam Independent Film Festival, Japan International Film Festival, Hong Kong World Film Festival.

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Director Statement

This film began with the question of where Utopia exists, between the ground and heaven, or the human and the divine world. It also explores whether utopia is temporal, spatial, material, or non-material. This work pursues an experimental visual found in the cosmic tree that appears in tomb murals of Goguryeo and Yggdrasill from ancient to modern times, with image symbols of the humanity, existence, and cosmic universality of utopia, which is not limited to a specific country.